A damaged file is judged in every format, and no longer claims its label by donislawdev · Pull Request #227 · donislawdev/TestingFilesGenerator

donislawdev · 2026-11-10T07:50:52Z

A damaged file is only worth writing when something refuses it, so a test written against it can tell an upload validator that let it through. This makes that rule a guard over every format and every damage, instead of a sweep taken once, and fixes the three places where the judge behind it was wrong.

What a user notices

A damaged file no longer claims to carry its label. Its manifest entry said label_embedded: true, although the damage comes after the label and can overwrite it. On a text file, zero-head zeroes the start of the label itself. A damaged file now says false, in properties too, with a label_not_guaranteed note. Undamaged files are described as before, and manifest_version does not change.

tfg generate --format txt --size 300 --damage zero-head:bytes=128 --out ./out

The entry has label_embedded: false, properties.label_embedded: false and the label_not_guaranteed note. Without --damage, it is true with no note.

The structural checker

internal/oracle/strict.py is the judge a damage is measured against. It was wrong three ways:

A ZIP with its first bytes zeroed passed. The check read the end records and never followed them to a local header. It now walks the central directory and checks that every entry leads to a local header with the same name, with its data before the directory. DOCX, XLSX and PPTX go through the same walk first, so bytes after their end record are refused too.
Broken input stopped the check with an exception, and the exception was counted as a refusal. That happened with a PNG cut inside its last checksum or holding only its signature, and with an Office part that cannot be read. Random damage to healthy files of every format found three more cases: a PDF cross reference offset that is not a number, an HTML label heading never closed, and an unknown compression method. Each is now refused with its reason. Seeded runs over 59 800 broken files end with no exception.
A verdict is raised rather than printed (Verdict, a SystemExit, so a check's own except Exception cannot swallow it). One process can now judge many files: strict.py --batch reads one JSON request per line, and oracle.StrictBatch hands it a list under the caller's context. In batch mode an exception is answered CRASH, never FAIL. A request it cannot act on - a format with no check, a file that is not there, a path holding a NUL, a line that is not JSON or is nested past what the decoder goes - is answered ERROR in its place, and the requests after it are still answered.

Healthy files are unaffected: all 31 formats at four sizes, plus ZIP and Office files with encryption, directories, compression, 200 entries and 9 MB, are all accepted.

Guards

TestEveryDamageIsRefusedByTheStructuralCheckInEveryFormat writes files through the real engine, labelled as both surfaces write them. It covers every format and every registered damage, at the damage's defaults and at both ends of each parameter, at the smallest size the pair takes and at 20 kB. Each damaged file sits beside a healthy one, and one batch judges them all (186 damaged files, about 1.5 s). The guard is red when a damaged file is accepted, when the checker falls over, or when a format has no structural check. It replaces TestADamagedFileIsRefusedByAJudge, which covered seven formats.
TestTheStructuralCheckerRefusesBrokenBytesInsteadOfStopping breaks twelve real files and checks each one is refused with the reason only the intended check gives.
TestACheckThatStopsOnAnExceptionIsACrashNotARefusal swaps in checks that raise, say nothing, or swallow their own refusal, and asks through the batch path.
TestADamagedFileNeverClaimsItsLabel covers every format, with a healthy control that does claim its label.
TestTheStructuralCheckerAnswersARequestItCannotActOnWithAnError and TestAStoppedCallerStopsTheStructuralChecker cover the answers a batch gives to what it cannot act on, and that a stopped caller stops the checker.

The PR adds 20 mutation entries, moves one to the new guard and rewrites one.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

… them An archive whose first bytes are zeroed passed the ZIP check, because it read the end records and never followed them to the local headers. It now walks the central directory and checks that every entry leads to a local header with the same name, with its data before the directory. Office packages go through the same walk first, so bytes after their end record are refused too. A PNG cut inside its last checksum, a PNG that is only its signature and an Office part that cannot be read stopped the check with an exception. Each is now a refusal with its reason. An exception left anywhere is reported as a fault in the checker and never counted as a refusal of the file. A verdict is raised rather than printed, so one process can judge many files: strict.py --batch reads one request per line, and oracle.StrictBatch hands it a list. Two guards hold this: real files from this tool, broken nine ways, must be refused for the right reason, and planted checks that fall over must be answered as a crash. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

A damage is offered for a format only when a judge refuses the result. That was a sweep taken once, over seven formats in the test suite. A guard now writes, through the real engine, a healthy and a damaged file for every format and every registered damage, at its defaults and with each parameter at both ends, at the smallest size the pair can be given and at 20 kB, and judges them all in one run of the structural checker. A damaged file that is accepted is red, and so is a checker that falls over instead of answering. A format with no structural check is red too, because the offer would reach it by default. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

The label is written by the generator and the damage comes after it, so it can overwrite it: zeroing the head of a text file took the label with it while the manifest still said label_embedded: true. A damaged file now says false, at the top of its entry and in its properties, with a label_not_guaranteed note saying why. A guard holds this for every format, beside a healthy file that does claim its label. The witness guard now writes its files with the label, as both surfaces do by default. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…g says what a user notices StrictBatch takes the caller's context, so a guard that is stopped stops the checker with it. The changelog lists the one change a user of the tool sees: a damaged file no longer claims to carry its label. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…fusals Random damage to healthy files of every format found three: a cross reference offset that is not a number stopped the PDF check, a label heading never closed stopped the HTML check, and an Office part packed with a compression method nobody knows stopped the package check. Each is now refused with its reason, and the guard of broken bytes holds all three. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The change updates manifest label claims for damaged files, adds a localized note, and expands strict structural checking for malformed files. It adds a JSON-lines batch interface and Go wrapper, then tests registered damage points across formats.

Changes: Damage Reporting and Strict Structural Checks

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Strict format validation `internal/oracle/strict.py`	The checker adds explicit verdict handling and validates PNG, PDF, ZIP, HTML, and OPC package structures. Checker exceptions remain distinct from file refusals.
Batch verdicts and damage-witness tests `internal/oracle/strict.py`, `internal/oracle/strictbatch.go`, `internal/guard/*`, `internal/damage/damage.go`	The Python checker and Go wrapper exchange JSON-lines requests and verdicts. Guard tests use this interface to check malformed samples and generated damage points across formats. The previous selected-format damage test is removed.
Damaged-file label claims `internal/engine/engine.go`, `internal/guard/damagelabel_test.go`, `internal/gui/text/locale/said/{en,pl}.json`, `CHANGELOG.md`	Damaged manifest entries with planned embedded labels set `label_embedded` to false and add a `label_not_guaranteed` note. The test checks label claims for healthy and damaged entries.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DamageWitnessTest
  participant StrictBatch
  participant strict.py
  participant run_check
  participant FormatCheck
  DamageWitnessTest->>StrictBatch: Submit file requests
  StrictBatch->>strict.py: Send JSON-lines requests
  strict.py->>run_check: Dispatch each check
  run_check->>FormatCheck: Validate file structure
  FormatCheck-->>run_check: Return verdict
  run_check-->>strict.py: Return verdict and reason
  strict.py-->>StrictBatch: Send JSON-lines answers
  StrictBatch-->>DamageWitnessTest: Return ordered judgements

Possibly related PRs

donislawdev/TestingFilesGenerator#214: Changes how video plans set label_embedded, the planned property this change reads when clearing damaged-file label claims.
donislawdev/TestingFilesGenerator#206: Changes how image and film plans set label_embedded, the planned property this change reads when clearing damaged-file label claims.

Suggested labels: bug, ui, performance

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 7b1d9

The change makes damaged files report that their label is not guaranteed and tightens the structural checks on malformed files. No concrete merge-blocking defect remains. One edge case reports a misleading refusal reason but still refuses the file.

Pre-merge checks: 12 · 2

Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Tests For Changed Behavior		The new `StrictBatch` behavior lacks tests for caller cancellation and `ERROR` responses to invalid requests. `internal/guard/strictverdict_test.go` and `damagewitness_test.go` cover successful batche…	Add tests that cancel the caller context and check `ERROR` responses for invalid batch requests.
Safe File Parsing		The new batch parser can stop on unsafe input. In `internal/oracle/strict.py:4216-4217`, `handle.read()` loads an entire file without a size limit. A huge file can exhaust memory and stop the batch, i…	Replace the unbounded read with `handle.read(max_bytes + 1)` and reject files over the limit. Limit JSON request size and nesting, catch `RecursionError` from `json.loads()` and `ValueError` from `open()`, and return a per-request error.

Passed checks: 12 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly describes the two main changes: structural checks judge damaged files across formats, and damaged files no longer claim an embedded label.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers		The diff adds no identified secrets, private agent files, local paths, or debug leftovers. The added print calls provide checker output and test results.
No Hardcoded Ui Styling		The PR changes GUI translation strings but does not change GUI controls or styling code.
No Obvious Performance Problems		The changes do not introduce a clear performance problem in the specified categories. The new checker processes requests in one batch, and the ZIP check walks entries once.
Desktop Robustness		The PR does not introduce a listed desktop robustness issue. The runtime change updates manifest metadata. The new checker batch is used by guard tests, not the desktop app.
System Changes Are Reversible		The changed code does not modify the system state covered by this check. It updates manifest metadata, file checks, and tests that use temporary files.
Clear User-Facing Text		The new label note explains that damage may overwrite the label. The PR adds no user-facing controls, buttons, confirmations, or error messages. The structural checker is used by internal guards.
No Resource Leaks		The changed code does not introduce a demonstrated resource leak. `StrictBatch` cancels its timeout and waits for the checker process. Batch file reads use a context manager, and the new tests use tem…
Scope, Duplication And Docs		The PR description covers the manifest and structural-checker changes. CHANGELOG.md documents the user-facing manifest change. The batch checker adds a distinct capability and uses the existing oracle…

Full details: No Resource Leaks

Explanation

The changed code does not introduce a demonstrated resource leak. StrictBatch cancels its timeout and waits for the checker process. Batch file reads use a context manager, and the new tests use temporary directories.

Full details: Scope, Duplication And Docs

Explanation

The PR description covers the manifest and structural-checker changes. CHANGELOG.md documents the user-facing manifest change. The batch checker adds a distinct capability and uses the existing oracle layer. The manifest fields retain their existing types, and the manifest reader remains unchanged.

Full details: Tests For Changed Behavior

Explanation

The new StrictBatch behavior lacks tests for caller cancellation and ERROR responses to invalid requests. internal/guard/strictverdict_test.go and damagewitness_test.go cover successful batches and checker verdicts, but not those paths. The PR description justifies replacing the deleted seven-format test with the broader guard.

Resolution

Add tests that cancel the caller context and check ERROR responses for invalid batch requests.

Full details: Safe File Parsing

Explanation

The new batch parser can stop on unsafe input. In internal/oracle/strict.py:4216-4217, handle.read() loads an entire file without a size limit. A huge file can exhaust memory and stop the batch, including later requests. At lines 4199 and 4216, deeply nested JSON can raise an uncaught RecursionError, and a path containing a NUL can make open() raise an uncaught ValueError. Both stop the batch instead of returning an error for that request.

Resolution

Replace the unbounded read with handle.read(max_bytes + 1) and reject files over the limit. Limit JSON request size and nesting, catch RecursionError from json.loads() and ValueError from open(), and return a per-request error.

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